Sentences with phrase «who spoke off»

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Before the Senate passed the bill, Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, spoke of a small - business owner on the waiting list who told the senator she'd have to lay off 27 workers if she did not obtain new financing.

I speak of bosses who express visible and public anger, yelling across hallways and conference rooms at the drop of a hat, or marching to other departments to «tell someone off» without realizing the fishbowl they work in (yes, people watch, take notes, and many are affected by it).

Practically speaking, if you're a big earner who's put off retirement planning until relatively late, your biggest challenge is likely to be the tax code.

Asked whether MPs who have criticised his leadership should be worried about deselection, Corbyn — who won 61.8 % of the vote to see - off challenger Owen Smith — failed to totally rule out this possibility when he spoke to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

These postures, in effect, «disconnect» or close you off from the person who is speaking.

Starboard, which did not speak to Reuters, wants Yahoo to spin off its Web and email business, merging them into AOL, one Yahoo investor who has spoken with the activist said.

Admittedly, it takes a rather mundane $ 135,055 of individual annual income to make it into the top federal tax bracket in Canada, as opposed to more than US$ 400,000 in the U.S. Taxpayers who fall below that U.S. threshold are, generally speaking, better off south of the border.

The social scientist, who kicks off her speech with a «free no - tech life hack» that will probably turn your frown upside down, says our body language speaks loud and clear to those around us.

Live video especially suits natural storytellers who can speak «off the cuff.»

There are good business reasons for outsourcing customer service work to off - shore companies, but the unintended consequence is a customer service representative who doesn't speak English fluently, struggles to understand the customer's concern and rigorously follows a script all the while communicating the message: your concern is your problem, not ours.

The surge of big transactions — with more than 20 deals worth at least $ 10 billion — has been bolstered by a desire by boards to head off disruptive technological threats and accelerate growth, according to bankers and lawyers who spoke to the Financial Times.

A different account emerged later: It was Mr. Stephenson who had offered to sell off CNN as part of a strategy to win governmental approval, according to two Justice Department officials who declined to speak publicly about the meeting.

All of this has led to some alarm in Trumpworld, with Scaramucci perhaps speaking for the Jared / Ivanka / Hicks camp when he sounded off Thursday about Kelly (who, we should remember, fired him).

In Quebec, there's the NDP's Ruth Ellen Brousseau, who barely speaks French and decided to high - ho off to Vegas during the campaign.

The deal's announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E's distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network's channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

«I decided to jump off the cliff with them, so to speak» said Jonathan Seliger, who joined naked Hub in 2016.

Led by Arnold Harberger (who spoke Spanish and had married a Chilean), the Chicago Boys set out to make socialism irreversible by selling off as many state enterprises as possible.

Matthew Lesko, the US writer who made himself a reputation within the 90s writing books on get «free money» from the United States authorities, claimed that cryptocurrencies are a rip - off and Bitcoin is a «gamble,» speaking to CNET in an interview on Feb. 20.

Although these may come off as arrogance to some people, they are mere mannerisms of an individual who is not afraid to speak his mind and call nonsense what it really is.

Speaking to the New Yorker, Mzykisi Mdidimba, who had been tortured by the apartheid regime in South Africa, said that her testimony at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission «has taken it off my heart....

Marriages are called off because someone with special powers spoke to a Jin who said «she's not the one for you.»

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

The people were forced to hear the stupid stories for so many centuries, and anybody who spoke up and said «that's ridiculous» got their head hacked off, that finally the people didn't know any better, and thought they were real.

One thing that often throws people off when I write is that I will sometimes discuss my beliefs from a position of biblical authority when I am speaking with one who has that belief system.

Since it is at a minimum passé to speak of God publicly, there are those who try to make the Decalogue more palatable to modern sensibilities by lopping off those Commandments directly referring to God, concentrating instead on the ones that govern human relations more generally.

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Many professors who've advocated for greater inclusiveness at Moody would only speak to me off - the - record for fear of losing their jobs.

In shutting off our awareness of «the signs» we are shutting off our awareness of the address of God, for He who speaks in the signs is the «Lord of the Voice,» the eternal Thou.

When tested, if they respond gracefully, then you have a godly leader who either is speaking truthfully or is ready to confess when they have gone off - track.

Speaking to Premier, he said: «It just so happened that someone was in the crowd that day who took video of the performance on their cellphone and posted it on YouTube and it just took off from there.»

At least the Mormons pretend to care about those who are off the map, so to speak.

Those who Do speak out are most often told, «we didn't have all these problems until you started shooting your mouth off.»

Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.

The God who speaks through the Word («God says...») is neither far off nor abstract.

• Speaking of obsession with politics, you might be surprised to know how often I encounter people who say they love the magazine but are put off by the political commentary.

If I did not have a friend who is a convert to Lutheranism (sorry to flog it, but theology matters) at The Sacrament is the Gospel who might speak in similarly strong tones, I would think David is completely off the rocker.

I most vividly recall the Canadian mother who, after hearing me speak, sobbed at the prospect of doctors pushing her catastrophically ill daughter off life support.

When a woman tries to call her family to meals and they are so bent on their own pursuits that they do not come, or tries to correct a child who pays no attention, or talks into the telephone to discover suddenly that she has been cut off or that the other party has hung up the receiver, she is not really speaking to anyone.

In them is some deserved judgment against a church that gives recitations, lifeless words cut off from the hearts and minds of those who speak and those who listen.

I handed the phone to my father who told them to take her off their phone list to which the woman refused still demanding to speak with my sick mother.

Bonhoeffer advocates unison singing and speaks rather sarcastically of those who show off their musical skill by singing harmony.

The remarks from Abdul Rauf, who has rarely spoken to the media since his proposal for an Islamic center set off a firestorm of controversy this summer, came while the imam is on a State Department - sponsored trip to the Middle East.

Now we have Hillary Clinton, speaking to a group of LGBT activists and donors and going off - message with a rant about those Americans who fall into her «basket of deplorables»: racists, sexists, homophobes, Islamophobes, whatever.

«What I'm really quick to say is to cut off people who would say this is proof that Jesus was married because historically speaking, it's much too late to constitute historical evidence,» she continued.

Also, it says in the Bible that speaking in tongues is not to be practiced in a public setting in the church, but in private settings, so not to scare off those who are new comers, and to allow them to be fuly convinced in their own heart.

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.

He was a mid-level employee who wrote a long, thoughtful memo — not a blustering Ivy League president speaking off the cuff.

Both churches meet blocks from ground zero, and on Sunday, Park will speak to congregants who watched what happened 10 years ago in person; congregants who brushed the toxic dust of falling buildings off their jackets and had to move on with their daily lives.

Any man who claims to speak for Jesus and then makes a profit off of Jesus is a sinner of the most foul proportions; he is destined to spend eternity in the firey pits he has assigned others to via his faux - christian propaganda.